WORKING GROUPS 2026
GT1 – Literature and Intertextualities
This Working Group proposes a reflection on literature in its multiple intertextual relations, considering dialogues among texts, authors, genres, media, and cultural traditions. It is grounded in the understanding of literature as a dynamic field, shaped by rewritings, adaptations, appropriations, and resignifications that are continuously updated across time and space. We seek to discuss how intertextuality operates in the construction of meaning, in reader formation, and in the circulation of literary works in diverse contexts, including cinema, visual arts, music, and digital culture. In the educational sphere, this WG welcomes research and reports that connect literature and intertextuality to teaching practices, viewing the classroom as a space for critical, comparative, and creative reading. Proposals that problematize methodologies for teaching literature, reader formation, multiliteracies, and the use of literary texts in dialogue with other discourses and languages are encouraged, contributing to a sensitive, plural, and contextualized literary education.
GT2 – Linguistics and Language Studies
This Working Group brings together research focused on linguistic studies and different conceptions of language, encompassing theoretical and analytical approaches that investigate language in use, discursive processes, social practices of language, and the multiple semioses that constitute contemporary communication. The WG includes studies in linguistics, discourse analysis, semiotics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, applied linguistics, and related fields that problematize language within its historical, cultural, and social contexts. In dialogue with education, this WG values investigations that articulate theory and pedagogical practice, especially regarding language teaching, teacher education, and classroom language dynamics. Discussions on reading, writing, orality, literacies, multiliteracies, and educational technologies are encouraged, considering the school as a space for meaning-making, linguistic diversity, and critical knowledge construction.
GT3 – Cinema, Communication, and Media
This Working Group offers an interdisciplinary space dedicated to film, audiovisual, and contemporary media studies, encompassing cinematic productions, series, television, and streaming platforms. The WG welcomes research that investigates narratives, aesthetics, formats, genres, and modes of production, circulation, and reception, taking into account the technological and cultural transformations shaping the audiovisual field today. The WG also includes studies connected to social communication, particularly journalism and advertising, understood as narrative, discursive, and symbolic practices articulated with audiovisual and digital media. Analyses of media convergence, transmedia storytelling, streaming culture, audiovisual advertising, visual journalism, documentary, storytelling, the attention economy, and disputes over meaning within current media ecosystems are welcome, fostering a critical reading of the relationships between media, society, and culture.
GT4 – Arts, Body, and Performance
This Working Group is dedicated to investigating the arts in their bodily, performative, and contemporary dimensions, bringing together research on performing arts, visual arts, performance, urban interventions, and hybrid artistic practices. The WG understands the body as language, aesthetic support, and a space of symbolic, political, and sociocultural inscription, shaped by issues of identity, memory, gender, race, territory, and subjectivity. Studies that problematize creative processes, performative practices, aesthetic experimentation, and the relationships between art, body, and socioculture are encouraged, as well as reflections on presence, sensoriality, visuality, and regimes of visibility. The WG welcomes theoretical and analytical approaches that contribute to a critical understanding of contemporary arts and their poetic, political, and transformative potentials in current social contexts.
GT5 – Social Studies, Culture, and Contemporary Criticism
This Working Group is dedicated to the critical analysis of social and cultural dynamics shaping contemporary life, bringing together research that problematizes practices, discourses, representations, and conflicts present in today’s societies. The WG welcomes interdisciplinary approaches that engage with cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, communication, and related fields, with attention to ongoing political, symbolic, and identity transformations. Papers reflecting on power, subjectivities, memory, colonialities, inequalities, territorialities, gender, race, class, media, and culture are encouraged, as well as investigations proposing critical readings of contemporary social phenomena. The WG aims to foster debates that contribute to understanding the complexities of the present, valuing diverse theoretical perspectives and analyses committed to critique, reflection, and socially situated knowledge production.